Growing opposition to the Common Core academic standards for the nation’s public schools is threatening to slow down and derail the initiative. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia ...

There is a shift away from teaching classic literature in the schools, according to a report by the Brown Center. Michael Godsey, a high school English teacher at San Luis Obispo High School in ...

Scott Richard, the Louisiana School Boards Association's executive director, criticized the Louisiana Department of Education's roll out of the Common Core educational standards. Louisiana's ...

Wyoming’s decision to adopt a set of national education standards in math and language arts may be a year old, but discourse on the learning goals was fresh among a crowd of parents, teachers and ...

KANSAS CITY — Education officials in most of the states that have adopted Common Core standards say they will go forward with the benchmarks for reading, writing and math despite objections, according ...

It's almost impossible to make any statement about the Common Core State Standards without a challenge from one side or the other in the highly politicized debate that has surrounded the project since ...

For almost the past four decades, academic standards have been a defining focus of efforts to improve student achievement. The movement for high academic standards—determinations of what students ...

New national standards for math and English education offer the promise of more relevance to the real world and the ability to compare students' performance across state lines. But skeptics worry ...

While Gov. Bobby Jindal is all over the map, flitting from state to state in pursuit of the dream of being on the Republicans’ 2016 presidential ticket, he’s also all over the place ideologically on ...

The Indiana Senate on Thursday passed Senate Bill 193, a measure providing for public hearings around the state to reconsider adoption of Common Core education standards. The vote was 38–11, with all ...

MANCHESTER — Former Education Secretary Bill Bennett, whose conservative credentials go back to the Reagan administration, brought his national campaign in support of Common Core to New Hampshire on ...